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Grafton Village President Jim Brunnquell officially announced on Monday that the village will not pursue plans to develop a business park on 114 acres currently in the Town of Grafton.

“Although no formal action is needed, I believe closure is needed for the proposed business park project,” Brunnquell said, reading from a prepared statement during the Village Board meeting Monday, March 5.

“The proposed business park, however viable it may have been, would have been a project that would have created a rift in community relations.”

For Grafton High School senior Gordy Thompson, completing his Eagle Scout project was a way to give back to those who serve others.

Thompson returned to his former grade school, St. Joseph Parish School in Grafton, to spruce up its memorial garden with a monument that pays tribute to first responders.

“When I first started the project, it didn’t have anything to do with first responders,” Thompson said. “I knew I wanted to do something to give back to my parish because they’ve done so much for me growing up and have provided me with so many opportunities.”

Following a Grafton Village Board meeting last month in which trustees argued over the longtime custom of allowing volunteer firefighters to take wedding photos with the fire department’s trucks, the Finance Committee decided Monday that it will keep the tradition alive.

“Why are we trying to fix something that isn’t broken?” asked Trustee Lisa Uribe Harbeck, a committee member who supports the photo tradition.

“Why are we going through all this trouble for one or two weddings a year?”

Plans are moving forward for the Village of Grafton to annex 84 acres of farmland from the Town of Cedarburg to develop a subdivision, but the proposal has sparked protests from residents living in the nearby Cedarton Estates subdivision.

This week, the village’s Plan Commission recommended approval of several project-related items for the Village Board, including annexation, rezoning the land from agriculture to residential and a certified survey map.